[aklug] new uses for MPP GPUs: WPA cracking.

Utilizing massively parallel processing abilities of GPU chips for things other that graphics has been discussed off and on for a while. Looks like somebody finally did something with it.
From RISKS Digest 25.38:

Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys:

  With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is
  now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100
  times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of
  the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only
  needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack. ...

http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12/russian-researchers-achieve-100-fold-increase-in-wpa2-cracking-speed/
http://www.prweb.com/releases/wi-fi/cracking/prweb1405954.htm
http://securityandthe.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/elcom_pressrelease_wpa.pdf

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Received on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:45:14 -0800